Summary
Kevin Osborne is an Architecture and Development Lead with over 25 years of hands-on engineering, mentoring, and leadership experience across enterprise, government, and startup environments. He specializes in secure, business-first solutions—particularly in high-security domains like ASIC/regulatory systems and elections—while remaining a pragmatic polyglot across C#, Java, C/C++, Python, and embedded platforms. Kevin has repeatedly taken startups from inception to successful exits and brings deep expertise in cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS), distributed systems, PKI and cryptography, and robust CI/CD practices. He blends low-level embedded and systems programming experience with modern microservices, frontend stacks, and strong operational observability. Based in North Lakes, Queensland, he’s a vocal supporter of open standards and ethical technology choices, and he tends to surface practical, auditable solutions from complex regulatory and security requirements.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Technology majoring in Software Engineering, Bachelor Information Technology majoring in Software Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Diploma Information Technology, Diploma Information Technology at Yeronga Institute of Technical and Further Education
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington